Browsing Business Schools and History: Proceedings of the Second AAHANZBS Conference - 2010 by title
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An Account of the Rise and Fall of the Australian Cameleering Industry, 1830-1930
Published 2010-12-01The Australian cameleering industry, which thrived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, played a crucial role in the exploration of the Australian outback, and development of the mineral riches of the new colony. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Archival Film: New Opportunities for Case Study Development and Presentation?
Published 2010-12-01The potential opportunities and limitations of utilising archival film as a primary data source have received very little attention from business historians. Archival film can be a rich source of oral and visual material ...Open AccessConference paper -
Changing Parental Leave Orientations in New Zealand
Published 2010-12-01New Zealand first introduced legislation for parental leave in 1980, with the Maternity Leave and Employment Protection Act. This Act provided up to 26 weeks of employment protection and unpaid leave for women only. ...Open AccessConference paper -
An Early NSW Government Attempt at Solving the Unemployed Problem: The Casual Labour Board, 1887-88
Published 2010-12-01Throughout the literature little appears to be known about the early Government attempts to provide public employment services in Australia. Subsequently, there appears to be much conjecture over when and where these first ...Open AccessConference paper -
Electronic Business and Legal Effect of Electronic Contracts in Australia
Published 2010-12-01Electronic commerce has transformed the manner of conducting commercial transactions which pose challenges to both consumers and business. Attempts are being made to regulate electronic contracts both at the national and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Four Work-Ins by Australian Journalists, 1944-80
Published 2010-12-01During industrial disputes with employers between 1944 and 1980 the Australian Journalist's Association occasionally turned to the tactic of the work-in, producing wild cat newspapers during strikes in Sydney. These ...Open AccessConference paper -
Gender Roles in Ming Dynasty China: The Water Dragon Classic
Published 2010-12-01This paper considers the relationship between spatiality, emotions and gender from the theoretical perspective of traditional Chinese thought in the early art/science of fengshui (wind and water). The discussion is based ...Open AccessConference paper -
An Historical Overview of New Zealand SME Policy, 1978-2008
Published 2010-12-01This paper is an historical enquiry into small and medium enterprise (SME) policy development in New Zealand during the years 1978 to 2008. Following the publication of the Bolton Report (1971) in the United Kingdom and ...Open AccessConference paper -
A History of the Infringement Notice Mechanism and its Use in the Enforcement of Australia’s Continuous Disclosure Regime
Published 2010-12-01In modern markets the need for the timely disclosure of detailed, accurate financial information is born of the radical separation of management and control apparent in the majority of large modern organisations. Inadequate ...Open AccessConference paper -
Labour Management and Firm Financing: Explaining Workplace Change in CUB's Breweries, 1991-2003
Published 2010-12-01The nature of the relationship between company financing and labour management has become increasingly analysed in recent years. Companies in countries characterised by large and relatively liberal capital markets are ...Open AccessConference paper -
Legal Origins of Fair Value Accounting
Published 2010-12-01The paper seeks answers to the question how FASB was able to introduce the term ‘fair value’ into accounting standards and wider accounting discourse as frictionlessly as it did. Leading relevant court cases in the USA and ...Open AccessConference paper -
New Prospectors: The Formation and Early Years of the Scottish Australian Mining Company in Newcastle, NSW, 1850-70
Published 2010-12-01Following the end of the Australian Agricultural Company’s monopoly in the coal-mining region of Newcastle, NSW, in the late 1840s, the Scottish Australian Investment Company (SAIC), headquartered in London, was amongst ...Open AccessConference paper -
A Not-So-Gentle Invasion: Changes to Women’s Participation in Public Service Workforces in the 1970s
Published 2010-12-01The increase in women’s workforce participation is one of the most significant changes to labour markets in recent decades. This research considers the timing, circumstances and effects of the policy changes that affected ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Origins and Early Years of the Barossa Community Store, 1944-65
Published 2010-12-01The Barossa Community Store in Nuriootpa is Australia’s largest and most successful surviving Rochdale co-operative store. It is located in the Barossa Valley, the centre of one of Australia’s major wine growing regions. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Understanding the Internationalisation of Family Businesses: Lessons from the History of Chinese and Lebanese Diaspora
Published 2010-12-01The emerging work on the internationalisation of the family businesses suggests that family businesses in general tend have low levels of internationalisation when compared to their non-family counterparts. Here, we review ...Open AccessConference paper -
‘The war is a money making show’: Working-Class Attitudes to World War II and Australian Nationalism
Published 2010-12-01This paper will address the conference themes of ‘class, power and social structure’ through examining industrial and ideological conflict during World War II. The paper will also address the theme of ‘class and culture’ ...Open AccessConference paper